Word: flyering
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...have sons in the service, brothers, husbands. If you walked out now you'd be going back on them. For instance, you'd be going back on Jimmy Morris. You worked side by side with him, and you all remember how he left here to become a flyer. You know how he was the pilot of a bomber on an important mission in the Mediterranean and how he brought back his plane and landed it. You know the rest of the crew got out and after a while looked around for Jimmy. But Jimmy hadn't come...
...Lieutenant Commander" (right) is also "Pola Negri's doctor," a "Rumanian diplomat," an "Army flyer," a "lawyer," three other U.S. "Naval officers" (various ranks), a "Brooklyn politician," and a "Serbian diplomat." In this 1921 picture, Impersonator Stephen Weinberg lined up on the White House lawn to present Princess Fatima (center), Sultana of Kakul, Afghanistan, to President Warren G. Harding. Last week fast-talking Stephen Weinberg, who has pretended for 30 years to be assorted fascinating people, was arrested again. This time the charge was not playacting, but dramatic coaching. The FBI said Weinberg had been teaching prospective draft dodgers...
...planes like her grew out of 1940's Third Army maneuvers in Louisiana. Then artillerymen exploded after futile searches for hills high enough for observation posts or long waits for observation planes from the Air Corps. One West Pointer, Major (now Colonel) William Wallace Ford, a private flyer for seven years, knew the solution: light planes attached to each field-artillery .battalion. Wallie Ford made little headway until the next summer when light plane manufacturers lent a dozen puddle jumpers for the 1941 maneuvers. A new colonel named Dwight Eisenhower was impressed. So was Lieut. Colonel Mark Clark. Flying...
Died. Air Commodore Augustus H. Orlebar, 46, Deputy Chief of Britain's Combined Operations (Commandos), onetime world's fastest flyer (357.7 m.p.h., in 1929); after several weeks' illness; in London...
...blind obedience to their Emperor, the Japanese are seen in prayer before Shinto shrines. A U.S. flyer is executed by a firing squad while the radio yelps that the Mikado's cities have been "treacherously and inhumanly" bombed. Tiny children in uniform are shown being trained to fight. Tokyo, its streets a blaze of light, is obviously sneering at blackouts. Jap propaganda films "prove" that only force pays, that by its victories the nation already possesses sufficient rubber, timber and other raw materials to carry on a war that will wear out the rest of the world...